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Laos Approved for U.S. $5 Billion Loan for Rail Project
A U.S. $5 billion dollar loan for construction of a rail link across southern Laos between Thailand and Vietnam has [...]
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Pressure Mounts on Laos Over Missing Activist
Laos is facing mounting international pressure over the disappearance of civil rights worker Sombath Somphone last December. Some have called [...]
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What Will WTO Membership Mean for Laos?
Fifteen years after Laos first sought membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO), the small landlocked Southeast Asian state finally [...]
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Laos Finally Called Out over Xayaburi Dam
Vietnam and Cambodia have finally found their voice. After months of obfuscating their position on the Lao government’s insistence on [...]
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The Curious Case of Sombath Somphone
A few weeks ago on December 15th, a mild-mannered but well-known NGO worker in Laos, Sombath Somphone, was following his wife [...]
